"spink" meaning in English

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      "glosses": [
        "The chaffinch."
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        "(obsolete, dialectal) The chaffinch."
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        "The primrose."
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      "glosses": [
        "The lady's smock or cuckooflower."
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      "form": "spinking",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "spinked",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    {
      "form": "spinked",
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        "past"
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          "ref": "1907 September 5, O. V. Aplin, “Notes on the Ornithology of Oxfordshire, 1905–1906”, in The Zoologist, volume XI, number 795, page 323:",
          "text": "The Chaffinches ‘‘spinked” as though its presence was not required, but it seemed to be feeding on insects only.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909 June 19, “Linnet Singing at Leeds. Unvarnished Reports versus Bluff and Bounce”, in Cage Birds and Bird World, volume XV, number 388, page 587:",
          "text": "The Linnet called “ Chivvey ” can tweet and spink and song-sing, and is full of clicks and jars, like the other.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Denys Watkins-Pitchford, “The Animal Banquet”, in The Little Grey Men, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 144:",
          "text": "Woodpig was rootling for worms up the brook when he was surprised to see Chaffinch, \"spinking\" at him from a hazel twig.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, Jack Badcock, chapter 3, in Waybent, London: Hutchingson & Co., page 77:",
          "text": "And his voice sounded good, too, and loud and clear, and he put two of his fingers into his mouth and whistled, a piercing, high-pitched scream of a whistle, and there was a sudden silence as though the noise had penetrated the brain of all things and stunned movement; but in a second the spinking blackbird began again his yittering, and all were at song again.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1966 January 7 [1964 July 30], Paul Slud, The Birds of Costa Rica, page 65:",
          "text": "The cry of this species, which consists of a number of rapidly ‘‘spinking” notes, reminds me of that of the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the United States.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, John Lewis-Stempel, “The Turn of the Earth” (chapter VI), in The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland, Doubleday, page 277:",
          "text": "6 DECEMBER The winter sun is a flat blade of white on the horizon. Blackbirds are spinking, a charmless sound, done by rote.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2017, Karen Lloyd, “The Land Remade” (chapter 13), in The Blackbird Diaries: A Year with Wildlife, Saraband, page 146:",
          "text": "Somewhere in the five gardens, a blackbird spinked, petulantly.",
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        "To call or vocalize."
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        "(intransitive, uncommon, of certain birds, especially chaffinchs and blackbirds) To call or vocalize."
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        "The chaffinch."
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        "(obsolete, dialectal) The chaffinch."
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        "The primrose."
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        "The lady's smock or cuckooflower."
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          "ref": "1907 September 5, O. V. Aplin, “Notes on the Ornithology of Oxfordshire, 1905–1906”, in The Zoologist, volume XI, number 795, page 323:",
          "text": "The Chaffinches ‘‘spinked” as though its presence was not required, but it seemed to be feeding on insects only.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1909 June 19, “Linnet Singing at Leeds. Unvarnished Reports versus Bluff and Bounce”, in Cage Birds and Bird World, volume XV, number 388, page 587:",
          "text": "The Linnet called “ Chivvey ” can tweet and spink and song-sing, and is full of clicks and jars, like the other.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1949, Denys Watkins-Pitchford, “The Animal Banquet”, in The Little Grey Men, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 144:",
          "text": "Woodpig was rootling for worms up the brook when he was surprised to see Chaffinch, \"spinking\" at him from a hazel twig.",
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          "ref": "1954, Jack Badcock, chapter 3, in Waybent, London: Hutchingson & Co., page 77:",
          "text": "And his voice sounded good, too, and loud and clear, and he put two of his fingers into his mouth and whistled, a piercing, high-pitched scream of a whistle, and there was a sudden silence as though the noise had penetrated the brain of all things and stunned movement; but in a second the spinking blackbird began again his yittering, and all were at song again.",
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          "ref": "1966 January 7 [1964 July 30], Paul Slud, The Birds of Costa Rica, page 65:",
          "text": "The cry of this species, which consists of a number of rapidly ‘‘spinking” notes, reminds me of that of the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the United States.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2016, John Lewis-Stempel, “The Turn of the Earth” (chapter VI), in The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland, Doubleday, page 277:",
          "text": "6 DECEMBER The winter sun is a flat blade of white on the horizon. Blackbirds are spinking, a charmless sound, done by rote.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Karen Lloyd, “The Land Remade” (chapter 13), in The Blackbird Diaries: A Year with Wildlife, Saraband, page 146:",
          "text": "Somewhere in the five gardens, a blackbird spinked, petulantly.",
          "type": "quote"
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        "To call or vocalize."
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